Let me reiterate a subtle but important point, SAP is throwing it’s weight behind Eclipse as an IDE and that’s big news. While SAP has supported Eclipse as a foundation member since 2002 the relationship has always been uneasy. SAP views developer tools as a core competency, so the notion of relying on a third party for this important piece of the developer tool portfolio has been unnatural for the company. Over the years this attitude has broken down and SAP is increasingly building key tools, like CE, on top of Eclipse. Let’s hope the company’s embrace of open source is two way and is an indicator of future support across the board.

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On the tech side, I wonder if they built that on top of GMF?
Jnolan:
On the biz side, yes, getting something back would be welcomed. Being a former SAP techie from a pervious life, I would appreciate that.

Internal pressure works great. But external pressure usually is more powerful :-P
Let’s give them the benefit of the doubt for now. Let’s hope they will step up those numbers below , but hey they joined Eclipse explicitly as a consumer, contributing in cash rather than code, afaik, until now.

From a pure number of commits done under SAPAG @ eclipse you can check: